Before adding survey data to a survey database and drawing, ensure that the styles and settings are set up.
There are several types of settings that you must specify before importing or creating survey data.
| Verify survey user settings | Survey user settings are specific to a Windows user login account and affect only the survey features including linework defaults. | |
| Set or verify equipment properties | Equipment properties specify the values associated with a specific surveying instrument. | |
| Create/verify a figure prefix database | The survey figure prefix database contains information on how figures are created and stylized. | |
| Create a survey database | A survey database contains all the control points, known directions, observation measurements, traverse definitions, figures, and standard deviations. | |
| Import/edit survey database settings | Survey database settings are specific to the survey features of an AutoCAD Civil 3D survey database. | |
| Verify survey drawing settings | Survey drawing feature settings specify the default styles for the survey network object and the figure object. | |
| Create/verify survey styles | Survey styles to control the way the survey networks and figures are displayed in a drawing. |